Greetings Economists,
Nova had a program on the consensus in science research circles
arising about genetics that the relatively unchanging genetic code
cannot account for 'inherited' diseases 'weaknesses as thought the
genetic code would reveal. Ravi turned me onto a book related to this
called "Adapting Minds" which takes on the Selfish Gene (Evolutionary
Psychology) concepts of people like Dawkins, or Pinker. The program
on Nova explained how a particular environmental impact might be
passed down through generations non-genetically. While this idea is
not new and some here have noted contemporary accounts of such
fundamental shifts away from genetic determinism, a popular media like
PBS indicates to me at least that the sort of sway that held for a
long time about genetic determinism in the U.S. has come to an end.
Just an observation.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
